Noire de Slack
Brasserie des 2 Caps in Tardinghen, Hauts-de-France, France 🇫🇷
Stout Regular|
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6.55
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Old rating from 2018 - 750ml bottle picked up in Cassel en-route to Belgium last summer. Pours a black colour with a beige foamy head. Aromas of caramel & malt. Tastes of smoked malt, chocolate, caramel & coffee. Aftertaste is a mild smoked malt & caramel/chocolate finish. A much better stout than I expected. Different bottle of beer in my home No. 1153
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Noire de Slack from Brasserie des 2 Caps 11 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
"Bière noire" (the French, chauvinistic as they are, seem to want to avoid the term "stout" in this case) from 2 Caps, a locally successful brewery operated by a Christophe Noyon; big thanks to my former colleague Jarno for bringing me this bottle from its region of origin, cheers mate! Huge, foamy, glass-filling, greyish beige, busily plaster-like lacing, uneven, rocky head over a clear, very dark chestnut brown robe - as good as black, but still with visibly mahogany brown hue. Aroma initially somewhat muted under all that foam, but then releasing impressions of diluted coffee grounds, toast, brown bread crust, liquorice candy, bayleaf, burnt blackcurrants, dried prunes, vague clove, strong iron (iron pipes) or even pewter growing stronger when warming up and clearly used as a head stabiliser. Relatively juicy onset, with a restrained sweetishness reminiscent of old dried prunes, even distant hints of pear and fig, but also with this underlying 'dim' sourishness typical for stouts in general; lively carbonation, but in a soft, small-bubbled way, through a slick, supple mouthfeel. Brown-bready malt core edged by immediately roasty, bittering 'blackness', but in a fairly soft way: drying and coffee-like, burnt toast even, but nowhere near black chocolate or molasses or anything of that kind. Ends with a near-ashy roasted bitterness enhanced by a more spicy, leafy hop bitterness, but this dried dark fruit juiciness lingers about a bit as well; meanwhile, a blood-like and eventually effectively metallic iron effect grows stronger, and the infamous 'hand test' confirms it, though not in an overwhelming way. Elements of bayleaf, clove and old dry liquorice linger about, but the coffee grounds, dried dark fruits (dried Eastern European prunes) and haemoglobin, along with the leafiness of the hops, get the last word. Especially this spicy-roasty, eventually quite mouth-filling bitterness rules supreme. Quite a basic, slender but tasty and effective dry stout with Irish influences - note that this is the westernmost part of France and Anglo-Saxon influences are not as rare there as one may think - with a basic flavour structure that remains entertaining and agreeable enough, even though the iron effect and the fact that it was apparently filtered were totally unnecessary. Very decent, I surely enjoyed this one, but then I have a weakness for old school stouts, no matter where they come from. Less importantly perhaps, this one does take me back to a road trip I made with a couple of friends - to Cap Gris-Nez and Cap Blanc-Nez, in a time when 'craft beer' as a concept did not even exist in Europe in general, let alone in France. But that was thirty years ago...
Goozen (5582) reviewed Noire de Slack from Brasserie des 2 Caps 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle with cork 0,75ltr: Black coloured brew with an good taste of roasted malts and coffee. Also some smokey flavour in the beer too. Irish blackness meets Bambergian smokiness at the French Côte d’Opale.
blackisle (5729) reviewed Noire de Slack from Brasserie des 2 Caps 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Bottle 33cl. from a local Carrefour at Bray-Dunes poured into a shaker @our appartment in Bray-Dunes. Pitch black, fair creamy tan head, good retention and lacing. Aroma dark roasted malt, coffee, caramel, chocolate, liquorice, hint of smoke. Taste medium sweet and below medium bitter, roasted malt, dark chocolate, caramel, liquorice, candy sugar. Medium body, creamy texture with a somewhat thin edge, soft carbonation, light roasty sweetbitter aftertaste, solid stout, nice.
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wizzzzz (1817) reviewed Noire de Slack from Brasserie des 2 Caps 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bière 33 cl bue chez les Oyats au bord de la plage à Wimereux. Robe noire intense, mousse epaisse couleur café, qui disparaît vite. Bouche maltée, torréfiée mais contrebalancee par une certaine acidité, bière fraîche et peu sucrée. (M)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
*rating overgezet* fles geprobeerd op vakantie in 2016. Het is een bijna pikzwart bier met een dun beige schuim. Het aroma is gebrande mout en rook. De smaak is gebrande mout, rook en as.
minutemat (16469) reviewed Noire de Slack from Brasserie des 2 Caps 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
75cl bottle chugged by myself, from Auchan. Pours black, enthusiastic tan head. Aroma of soft liquorice, roast, smokey hints. Taste sees more of these elements with a permeating treacle sweetness, some soy sauce with additional light roast and faint smoke that lingers throughout. Moderate carbonation that could be eased off a little. Quite decent really.
Hanoi (2022) reviewed Noire de Slack from Brasserie des 2 Caps 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, from notes. Nose is lightly smokey, pronounced soy, tar, earthy. Taste follows with a full soy body, earth, sweet malt, dry finish with hint of smoke. It’s fine.